Tuesday 18 September 2007

Parmenides saw

Parmenides
Image Courtesy livius.org

If you should talk
Of
Nothing
-
Then no thing
You
shall
See
-
For
Nothing
Is not this world
-
Nothing
Cannot
Be
-
Nothing
Has
But
No
Thing
-
No
Thing
There
To
See
-
No shape
-
No sound
-
No texture
-
No weight
-
No density
-

So if you can describe it
-
Then do so please for me
-
For it defies description
-
It
Has
None
-
You will see
-
And
Should
You
Think
-
An empty space
-
Is
A
Nothing
You may find
-
Just think
What is around it
-
Something
On
Your
Mind?
-
While things exist
In every form
-
From
Thoughts
-
To
What you see
-
There is no such thing
As nothing
-
Only
Spaces
That
Are
Free
-
For
As long as just one thing exists
-
A no thing
You won't find
-
Don't speak of it
As if it were
-
It
Cannot
Be
Defined
-
So
Do not doubt
That all things are
-
For
It
Is
Clear
-
To
See
-
That once there was
A some thing
-
Only every thing
Could be

_


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